Valley Emperor

Wang Shanxi, as a retired army major general and former deputy director of the Military Intelligence Department, his greatest contribution is not to say how much he has made in the field of military intelligence, but to discover and explore the route to Australia.

Since Wang Shanxi discovered Australia, he has been made a baron and was promoted to brigadier general.

In the follow-up, Wang Shanxi, as an active army brigadier general, continued to lead the exploration fleet to explore the ocean. Although it is a bit nonsense to let an army brigadier general explore the ocean and call it a navigator, this is the reality.

Wang Shanxi's position in the Department of Military Intelligence is only a temporary post. His job has always been to explore the ocean!

After finding Australia, he led the exploration fleet to explore around Australia twice. The first time he successfully circled around Australia and found Tasmania, and the second time he found it. New Zealand Islands.

In addition, he led the fleet to continue to explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and successively discovered many islands in the Pacific Ocean. He has been to North America and South America, and also entered the Atlantic Ocean through Cape Horn.

At present, the many islands discovered by the empire in the Pacific Ocean and in the South Pacific are basically what he led the exploration fleet to discover you, and the above islands are, without exception, thrown into the territory of the Tang Empire by Wang Shanxi Although most of the above-mentioned islands are out of actual control, they are all included in the territory of the Tang Empire.

After the last voyage of exploration, Wang Shanxi fell ill. Although there is no fear of his life, he is no longer suitable to continue sailing.

In view of his exploits, he was promoted to Major General of the Army, Viscount.

A year ago, he officially retired from active duty

For such a person, it is natural that no one has an opinion on being named a viscount, but it is beyond the expectations of many people that he first obtained the title of the territory.

It's just that there is not much deep meaning here, mainly because Li Xuan paid more attention to nautical exploration before, not only Wang Shanxi, but also several other outstanding navigators in the empire, Li Xuan has always been concerned about it.

When choosing people, I just thought of Wang Shanxi, and learned that Wang Shanxi's condition is already relatively serious, and he should not live for a few years.

So Li Xuan decided to take Wang Shanxi as the first group of nobles to grant the territory.

In addition to Wang Shanxi, four other people have also been granted the territory, but the remaining four are all baronial titles, and one of them has been awarded the Dongsu County (eastern part of Sumatra Island) on Sumatra Island, Banten Province. One was awarded the title of Zhongshan County in Ryukyu Prefecture, one was awarded the title of Mindao County in Luzon Prefecture, and the other was awarded the title of Ezo Prefecture in the Fusang Islands.

The above-mentioned five people, whether they are Wang Shanxi or the other four barons, all have the same nature as the territories they have been granted. They are all overseas territories, and no one has been granted a local territory, even in the bitter cold land of Northeast Province. No one can be sealed, let alone the prosperous Central Plains in China.

In the mainland, especially in the areas currently occupied, Li Xuan did not intend to assign it to the nobles, because places such as Hefeng Province and Northeast Province were too important.

This place in Hefeng Province is actually the Hetao area and the Fengzhouchuan area. It has been a battleground for the Central Plains Dynasty and nomads since ancient times. For this place, the Datang Empire regarded it as more important than the foundation of life. Even the war-ready railway was built in the past. Yes, it will be taken out there and given to the nobles.

As for the Northeast Province, because of its geographical location, it is not too important, but this place is also an important part of the empire's territory in Li Xuan's positioning, and it cannot be easily divided. In addition, there is another reason that this broken place is currently It is too bitter and cold. You must know that the northeastern province of the Tang Empire is not the three northeastern provinces of later generations.

The Northeast Province of the Datang Empire, its territory is north of Heilongjiang, east of Ussuri River, and east of Lake Berga. There are only a few people in these broken places. It is a huge northeastern province with a total population of only 200,000!

If you really want to divide it, it is not divided, but distributed!

The other overseas territories have been occupied by the empire for many years and have been immigrated for many years. After years of immigrant development, they are more suitable for living and living. In addition, there are steam engines and passenger ships now, so this distance is not considered. too far.

So far, these places are actually quite good.

In addition, the fiefs of the above-mentioned five people, the fiefdom salary they received was also 0.5% by Li Xuan personally, in addition, a large amount of land was given to each of them, of course, the land granted was undeveloped. The barren mountains and wild forests, or still in the hands of the natives, belong to the local official fields in nature.

As for the land that the immigrants have developed, it is the land of other immigrants. If you want to deprive them of their land, you have to ask the swords and guns in their hands whether they agree!

Although it is said that the land of other people’s immigrants is distributed free of charge by the government, in fact, in overseas territories, the free distribution depends on the situation. Only a very small part of the land has been prepared by the government and distributed free of charge. In fact, more It still needs to be captured by the immigrants themselves with knives and guns.

The land that people exchanged for their lives, your government will take back and give it to the nobles. Those immigrants have not turned the sky, maybe the local militia will be violent.

The division of these five people is also an attempt made by Li Xuan, which is experimental in many aspects.

At the same time, he also hopes that this noble who has obtained a fief can lead a good head to the subsequent nobles and develop their respective territories.

Although it is said that they do not have the administrative power of the fiefs, but as local lords, and they are the imperial elites themselves, it is impossible to say that they will not bring influence to the local government, this kind of thing is inevitable.

Therefore, although they cannot directly participate in administrative management, they can definitely influence the affairs of the territory by exerting influence.

Then, they also got a lot of land. For example, Wang Shanxi, he was awarded the Bandan Prefecture, which is the entire Banten Island, and the land he was given is also very terrifying, occupying the total area of ​​Banten Island. more than one-twentieth.

How to put it, Li Xuan gave Wang Shanxi all the land on Wandan Island that was not actually controlled by the Tang government, but still under the control of the local indigenous people.

From now on, these lands will be the private land of the Wang Shanxi family, the kind with title deeds.

In addition, many nobles targeting the empire are not actually hereditary. They are either reduced to hereditary and then reduced to the title, or the lowest baron, who is directly reduced to the title after death.

And this non-hereditary system can certainly control the number of nobles and maintain the renewal of noble groups, but this also creates another problem, that is, after a noble without hereditary authority dies, what will happen to his fiefs?

In this regard, Li Xuan also made certain adjustments to the existing aristocratic system, and appropriately relaxed the conditions for reducing hereditary status!

Supplementary clauses were also formulated, which stipulated several kinds of title inheritance systems.

The first is for the hereditary system. Li Xuan once again made it clear that under any circumstances, hereditary titles above baron will not be awarded. This is a permanent rule.

The highest level of hereditary system is to grant permission to inherit the title of baron for three generations.

Either of the above two types is reduced from hereditary to baron and then hereditary. It is truly hereditary. It is also the only title in the Tang Empire that can be truly hereditary.

Then there is the ordinary hereditary reduction, the reduction to the baron, and the addition of a first-level lord, that is, the reduction to the lord and the reduction of the lord.

After the lord cut the title, the fief was recovered, but the land originally granted was not recovered.

Because a fief is a fief, it is possible to share the tax revenue of the fief, but the land given is handled as normal private property. Since it is private property, there is no reason to take it back.

In addition, these lands can also be bought and sold freely. If Wang Shanxi is willing, he can actually sell the large amount of land that has been sealed.

But of course no one wants to do such a thing.

In fact, when Wang Shanxi was first awarded the title, he set up family rules. Wandan Island is the place where the Wang family lives and lives, and future generations cannot sell the land, and they have already made a will. After his death, all the family's wealth will be lost. , including the massive land occupying more than one-tenth of the area of ​​Sudan Island, will be inherited by the prince alone.

And this inheritance system is a family rule for the Wang family, and future generations must abide by it!

Leave all the wealth~www.wuxiaspot.com~, especially the land, to the heirs. This is also the unified practice of many nobles and even ordinary gentry, in order to maintain the prosperity of the family, not to say that after several generations of continuous separation, The family doesn't have much wealth, and in the end, the heir may just have the title of a noble, but he doesn't even have a manor to live in.

This is to ensure that his heirs have sufficient financial resources to maintain the dignity of the nobility.

It makes sense for Wang Shanxi to do this, because their Wang family will coexist with the empire for a long time in the foreseeable future, because Wang Shanxi also won a special honor before being enfeoffed. That is his viscount title. After being reduced to a lord, the son of the lord can continue to inherit the title of lord after the official assessment, and accumulate it. After passing the assessment, each generation of the lord can continue to inherit the title. Lordship.

This is a small hole that Li Xuan opened up to the hereditary.

And this small hole can also be closed at any time, and it has great flexibility, because if you fail the examination at that time, it is actually a word from the emperor. , then naturally it will not pass.